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" Take the outspoken singer-songwriter who scored a hit with &amp;#039;Legend of a Cowgirl&amp;#039; a decade or so ago, add a multi-talented musician who likes everything from jazz to Guns &amp;#039;N Roses, and get them to make an album inspired by their native Brooklyn. What do you get? Little Jackie, a genre-hopping pop/soul/hip-hop duo whose debut single, &amp;#039;The World Should Revolve Around Me&amp;#039;, is one of the songs of the summer. We hooked up with the intriguing twosome - Imani Coppola and Adam Pallin - to find out more. Why did you call yourselves Little Jackie?Imani: &amp;quot;Because Jackie to me is like a little devilish name and I&amp;#039;m a little devilish...&amp;quot;Adam: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s also after the Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam song. It kinda works on two levels.&amp;quot; How would you describe the Little Jackie sound?Adam: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s neo-soul, it&amp;#039;s crunk...&amp;quot;Imani: &amp;quot;Crunk?! Do you guys know what crunk is out here?&amp;quot; Well, &amp;quot;crunk&amp;quot; makes me think of Ciara.Adam: &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s kinda crunk &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; b... but crunk&amp;#039;s sort of a cheeky term. It&amp;#039;s soul, it&amp;#039;s hip-hop, it&amp;#039;s R&amp;amp;amp;B. Our music&amp;#039;s obviously soulful but it&amp;#039;s a combination of hip-hop and soul really.&amp;quot; What inspired &amp;#039;The World Should Revolve Around Me&amp;#039;?Imani: &amp;quot;I was going through a break-up and I was p***ed so I wrote a song about it. I never actually felt like the world should revolve around me. It was just a f***ing cheeky little thing to say when you&amp;#039;re p***ed off. You know when you say things you regret in an argument?&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s another song on your album, &amp;#039;Cryin&amp;#039; For The Queen&amp;#039;, where you take a pop at Amy Winehouse. What&amp;#039;s she done to irritate you?Imani: &amp;quot;Oh, you know, I was just jealous. I was really struggling at the time. I was an artist who&amp;#039;s been on the charts and then just got lost in the transition from cool, interesting music to f***ing s**t pop. Finally cool music came back and she was kind of the front-runner and she was just f***ed up the whole time. But it&amp;#039;s OK because the greatest artists are often the most f***ed up.&amp;quot; What do you think of the other British female artists - people like Lily Allen and Adele - who&amp;#039;ve tried to make it in the States recently?Imani: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t we have immigration laws? Sorry, that&amp;#039;s what I think about it.&amp;quot;Adam: &amp;quot;In America we have hardcore genres that you have to fit into when you&amp;#039;re an artist. The American public needs to be totally directed: &amp;#039;Is this rock? Is this R&amp;amp;amp;B?&amp;#039; As Imani said, cool music came back and all these quirky singer-songwriters you guys are producing are kinda responsible for it.&amp;quot;Imani: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s actually made some space for me to come back so it&amp;#039;s not a negative thing.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s another interesting song on the album called &amp;#039;Black Barbie&amp;#039;. What were you thinking of when you wrote it?Imani: &amp;quot;You know, I go the gym and I watch TV for an hour and it&amp;#039;s always like four or five people: Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and maybe one other. That song&amp;#039;s just a sarcastic little &amp;#039;f**k you!&amp;#039; I thought, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m going to show you guys what you&amp;#039;re doing but I&amp;#039;m going to be black doing it&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s me living out their little puny fantasy of being famous for no reason: getting drunk, having an accident, flashing your p***y, going to jail, finding God, getting pregnant, having a baby and then the world loves you again &amp;#039;cause you&amp;#039;re a nice mom! It&amp;#039;s so f***ing annoying! Do you guys have anyone like that?&amp;quot; Well, we have someone called Chanelle who&amp;#039;s essentially famous for imitating Posh Spice.Imani: &amp;quot;Get the f**k outta here!&amp;quot;Adam: &amp;quot;Does this girl even look like Posh?&amp;quot;Imani: &amp;quot;Actually Posh isn&amp;#039;t that hot dude, she kinda looks weird to me. What&amp;#039;s Posh even famous for?&amp;quot;Adam: &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s famous for being David Beckham&amp;#039;s wife.&amp;quot;Imani: &amp;quot;And she&amp;#039;s got to keep up with the fact that her husband actually does something for a living so she&amp;#039;s super into fashion. Yeah, I get it.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;The World Should Revolve Around Me&amp;#039; is out on download now. Little Jackie&amp;#039;s album, The Stoop, follows on September 1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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